How do i make a variable that picks randomly from somewhere

[wind herald]

Can anyone tell me how

[pallid wagon]

so you can pick randomly from a table

which would be

local thingstopick = {
  "thing1",
  "thing2",
  "thing3"
}
local randomthing = thingstopick[math.random(1,#thingstopick)

so it will generate a random number from 1 to however many instances is inside a table

then pick a random one from the table

[wind herald]

can't i pick from a folder or a backpack?

[pallid wagon]

you can, it will have to be for example

local thingstopick = folder:GetChildren()

it's still a table

[wind herald]

so uhm i do math.random?

[wind herald]

what is the 1 for there

[pallid wagon]

starting point

so a table contains a number of entries right

the first entry is table[1] basically

so what it does there is picks a random entry from the table